
In mid-August 2014, three days of torrential monsoon rainfall led to the widespread Karnali floods in Western Nepal.The floods killed 222 people and...
In October 2015, South Carolina experienced days of torrential rains and severe flooding.The floods were a major disaster. Total losses have been...
Extreme flooding from Hurricane Harvey (~100 km3, ~80 million acre feet, maf of rainfall) in Houston, Texas, US co-located with depleted aquifers...
This case study from communities in Nepal shows that it’s possible for even those with limited resources to better equip themselves to face flood...
This roadmap is developed from work undertaken on ICRM through the “Advancing Climate Risk Insurance plus” (ACRI+) implemented by the Deutsche...
Building urban resilience in Morocco at both the local and national level has helped to increase the application of risk information in public policy...
Disasters pose a growing threat to sustainable development. Disaster risk management efforts have largely failed to arrest the underlying drivers of...
An intense thunderstorm caused severe flooding in Emmental and surrounding villages. But the damages would have been even bigger had the water level...
Major floods that swept through the Balkan region in 2014 have added to the problems facing people still recovering from conflict. Some had only just...
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